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Wash Your Hands Before You Pick Your Nose!

29 August, 2007 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Wash your hands before you pick your nose! Those were the parting words from our microbiology lab director. I started fellowship in the Microbiology lab. 3 weeks of bliss compared to what was to come. The goals were to learn the fundamentals of clinical microbiology, to become better consultants by being able to actually interpret […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Antiretrovirals, Diagnostics, EMR, Hand Hygiene, HIV, ID Fellowship, Medical Education, Microbes, Staphylococcus

Thoughts of Korle Bu & Fevers Unit Clinic

21 January, 2007 by GAggreyMD

At Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana, I attended Mortality Review for the Department of Medicine. It was similar to Surgical M&M in that they went through all their cases. In a Medical M&M it is typical to choose one or a couple of cases with salient teaching points to review. A resident from each ward recounts […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Antiretrovirals, Diagnostics, Ghana, Hepatitis, Korle-Bu, Medical Education, Tuberculosis

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